IT is undergoing a significant transformation as businesses look to streamline costs and roll out a new class of cloud-based applications driven by a changing digital economy. The IT infrastructure as we know it today is not well equipped to improve on the cost structure for traditional workloads nor handle the velocity demands of a new generation of workloads where IT is a focal point for competitive differentiation. As one approach to address these changing demands of IT, vendors are bringing to market new solutions under a new category called “composable infrastructure”.

Illinois-based manufacturer Plano Molding sought to replace a paper-and-pencil data collection process with an automated manufacturing execution system (MES). They wanted a real-time look at production data. Many of their decisions were made based on observations and guesses rather than facts, and they needed deeper insights.
To improve shop floor efficiency and anticipate and solve production issues before they occurred, Plano Molding implemented the Epicor Mattec MES system. The insights they gained into the shop floor are helping to drive bottom-line growth.
Plano Molding has also seen significant scrap savings. Rather than focus on scrap percentage, the Mattec MES solution allows them to focus on higher-dollar-value products. This has led to the Plano Molding team saving $700,000 in scrap improvements.
Read the success story to learn more about Plano Molding’s experience and consider how your business might benefit from a modern production system like Epicor Mattec MES.

IBM Security and Ponemon Institute are pleased to release the 2017 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Overview. According to our research, the average total cost of data breach for the 419 companies participating in this research decreased from $4.00 to $3.62 million The average cost for each lost or stolen record containing sensitive and confidential information also significantly decreased from $158 in 2016 to $141 in this year’s study. However, despite the decline in the overall cost, companies in this year’s study are having larger breaches. The average size of the data breaches in this research increased 1.8 percent

While there has been improvement in the amount of time an attacker spends in a network before detection — decreasing from years to days in many cases — the ongoing delay illustrates just how elusive attackers still are compared to an organization's ability to detect a problem. IDC believes that actionable threat intelligence is going to be a significant factor in improving this metric. Threat intelligence has historically been seen as a complex set of activities reserved for security operations centers (SOCs) and advanced security analysts. The tools to collect and apply threat intelligence have generally not existed commercially and the ability to integrate threat intelligence into the traditional security workflow has not been available. Over the last few years, threat intelligence has been growing in importance within the security workflow.

"DBAs need help with tackling significant issues, including doing more with fewer resources, quickly responding to upgrade and patch needs, while reducing the time spent on cloning databases. Finally, they need help eliminating the time they spend integrating, testing, and deploying full-stack cloud solutions. How can DBAs reconcile these competing demands?
Learn more about expanded offerings in a database appliance that are delivering numerous advantages. These new configurations have the potential to help IT derive new benefits in its efforts to serve the business.
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The constant churn of product selection is not just time-consuming, it requires meticulous attention to detail, a reliable product tracking system, and significant physical space. Mastering inventory results in much more than simply organizational improvements. It can lead to increased revenues, better theft control, improved forecasting and budget setting, and even smoother customer service.

There is a significant gap between how manufacturing companies value specific aspects of their project execution and how they judge their performance. Better education in project management methodologies and standalone software tools alone will limit a company’s ability to perform at its highest level. A study by Engineering.com found that a web-based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution is the best way for a company to fully achieve its best practices.
This white paper shares how a PLM solution with embedded project management can uniquely provide:
• Full alignment between projects and the product portfolio
• Coordination of a project’s schedule, resources and scope
• Automatic real-time status updates of project tasks
• Mitigation of project risks based upon real-time assessment of product development
Benefit from the unique value provided by PLM systems with embedded project management.

Whether you’re in retail, manufacturing, warehouse management, transportation or healthcare, a mobility solution is a great way to empower your employees to do more. But maximizing the value and success of your mobility solution hinges on one critical decision: choosing the right mobile devices. This white paper takes a look at how choosing the TC51/TC56 for a mobility solution can have a significant impact on the overall success of your initiative.

The shift to SaaS is gaining momentum and there are clear business benefits that can be derived. To optimise success, transformation strategies need to encompass all elements of people, processes, technology and organisational design. Adopting SaaS technologies drives significant change to the way organisations operate – from business processes to support model design and company culture. The implications of cloud adoption and technical challenges such as integrations, data migration and configuration must be fully understood and addressed from the outset.

It’s an exciting, albeit challenging time for marketers—new channels, strategies, and technologies have empowered us to engage our buyers like never before. At the same time, due to the abundance of available information, buyer expectations have increased, leaving marketers to fight for their attention as we showcase our products and services.
In response, organizations are implementing an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy. Account-based marketing offers organizations a significant return on investment (ROI) as they are faced with the need to acquire, retain, and grow high-value accounts. This comprehensive, 100+ page guide includes checklists, worksheets, examples, and advice from over 12 industry thought leaders to help marketers at any level, from beginners to experts, create and implement an effective account-based marketing strategy.
Download The Definitive Guide to Account-Based Marketing to learn:
How to create a solid ABM strategy to meet your goals
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It’s 2017. 29% of the global workforce is fully mobile, allowing productivity to skyrocket. Mobility is achievable for any business, but there are significant obstacles along the way. Does your workplace know enough about security and implementation to join in? This Whitepaper will help you overcome the biggest barriers to mobility in your business, such as:
Security: How do you make a plan to secure your data against infinite possibilities?
Efficiency: How much ROI can you expect, and what expenses should you budget?
Implementation: How do you create a mobile solution your employees will love?

It’s 2017. 29% of the global workforce is fully mobile, allowing productivity to skyrocket. Mobility is achievable for any business, but there are significant obstacles along the way. Does your workplace know enough about security and implementation to join in? This Whitepaper will help you overcome the biggest barriers to mobility in your business, such as:
Security: How do you make a plan to secure your data against infinite possibilities?
Efficiency: How much ROI can you expect, and what expenses should you budget?
Implementation: How do you create a mobile solution your employees will love?

DevOps is critical to accelerating digital business success. Research studies over the past several years consistently back this up, revealing benefits such as improved service delivery, increased customer satisfaction, and significant revenue growth.

The process of content marketing has typically been defined by a three-pillar system that consists of “Creation”, “Distribution”, and “Insights”. However, this system neglects to include the significant fourth pillar of content marketing: Experience. If you want to improve your content’s performance, you can’t afford to ignore your content experience any longer.

Cloud-based solutions are revolutionizing the way that enterprises conduct business. These web-based versions of common business tools, like analytics or document management tools, retain most or all of the functionality of their desktop versions and provide significant access, customization, and utility to end users. More organizations are ditching on-premises solutions and adopting cloud-based tools, also known as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), "hosted," or "on-demand" solutions. The are becoming invaluable assets in today's agile and mobile workforce.

DNS has recently been dubbed by Gartner Research as “mission-critical” infrastructure and as such, who you select for a DNS provider can have a significant impact on the functionality and performance of your online assets. To help with your research, download this DNS evaluation guide.
You will learn the most important functions of a robust DNS provider including:
Advanced traffic steering from failover to GSLB capabilities
Rapid record propagation time
Secondary DNS support
Security expertise
Keep your brand safe and your user-experience top notch by choosing the best provider for your business. Learn more now!

DNS Speed and reliability are fundamental to the performance of your website and essential to the growth of your business. In order to overcome outages and ensure digital success it’s important to evaluate your DNS infrastructure and determine which configuration is best for your IT environment at this layer. Discover how you can use Secondary or Multi-DNS architecture to promote business continuity, and optimal DNS resolution performance.
Download this Technical Brief on Secondary/Multi-DNS patterns and learn:
How multi-DNS patterns can significantly improve security, reliability, and performance of your infrastructure
The advantages and limitations of Primary-Secondary, Hidden Master and Primary-Primary configurations
The best use cases for implementing a supplemental or secondary DNS service

"DNS has recently been dubbed by Gartner Research as “mission-critical” infrastructure and as such, who you select for a DNS provider can have a significant impact on the functionality and performance of your online assets. To help with your research, download this DNS evaluation guide. You will learn the most important functions of a robust DNS provider including:
• Advanced traffic steering from failover to GSLB capabilities
• Rapid record propagation time
• Secondary DNS support
• Security expertise
Keep your brand safe and your user-experience top notch by choosing the best provider for your business. Learn more now!
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"DNS Speed and reliability are fundamental to the performance of your website and essential to the growth of your business. In order to overcome outages and ensure digital success it’s important to evaluate your DNS infrastructure and determine which configuration is best for your IT environment at this layer. Discover how you can use Secondary or Multi-DNS architecture to promote business continuity, and optimal DNS resolution performance.
Download this Technical Brief on Secondary/Multi-DNS patterns and learn:
• How multi-DNS patterns can significantly improve security, reliability, and performance of your infrastructure
• The advantages and limitations of Primary-Secondary, Hidden Master and Primary-Primary configurations
• The best use cases for implementing a supplemental or secondary DNS service
Learn more!
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Gartner reports that 75% to 80% of organizations are using some form of agile project management process.
Although agile project management has been around for many years, the way we adapt it has changed significantly, especially as project portfolio management (PPM) practices have evolved.
In today’s businesses, technology plays a crucial role in our success, but technology can also make things more uncertain. This uncertainty has given us the motive to be more flexible and requires a “think on your feet” mentality. For this reason, we've seen a big spike in Agile PPM over the last few years. So how do we continue to deliver stability and efficiency, the result of traditional style PPM, while also giving in to necessary risks that lead to innovation and competitive edge?
It’s simple: accept the value in each method, avoid the inevitable pains that may develop with segregation, and opt for a unified agile and traditional PPM model.

Do attitudes to IT adoption vary depending on your seniority within a business? And could this be holding back adoption of technology? These are key questions explored in this paper, which compares the views of mid-level ‘hands on’ IT managers with those of senior directors within British companies.
Across both groups, there is a sense that UK business in general is too wary of implementing new technology.
But there is a significant divergence of opinion when it comes to a range of factors, such as the extent to which companies invest in new technology, stay on top of the latest tech, and understand its importance to the success of the business.
A pattern emerges, whereby the senior leaders within companies are far happier than middle managers with the status quo around technology adoption. And IT managers even suggest that this might be driven by self preservation on the part of senior leaders.

In this report, we’ll look at some of the challenges that smaller organisations face in building and managing IT, along with how some businesses are leveraging a hybrid cloud and on-premise approach, gaining some significant benefits through this approach.

Labeling blood and other samples at the time they are collected improves patient safety and helps prevent a host of problems related to misidentification — including many of the estimated 160,900 adverse events that occur in U.S. hospitals annually because of sample identification errors. There is a strong and growing body of evidence within medical literature that creating specimen identification labels on demand at the patient bedside with a mobile printer can significantly reduce errors. The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) advocate the use of two patient-specific identifiers, such as name and birthdate, whenever taking blood or other samples from a patient, and to label the sample collection container in the presence of the patient.